An artist’s representation of a rogue wave appearing during supercontinuum generation. Credit: UCLA WASHINGTON, March 5—A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves of light — rare and explosive [...]
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Lack of strategies to manage MRI wait lists a key reason for excessive wait times
Calgary, AB – A new study headed by Dr. Tom Feasby, Dean of UCalgary’s Faculty of Medicine, shows that while Canada lags behind other countries in the number of diagnostic imaging devices, more machines are not the only solution to long wait times. The study’s authors say it is critical to prioritize MRI (magnetic resonance [...]
Exposure to family violence compromises physical and mental health of older women
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Geologists map rocks to soak CO2 from air
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Study finds that students benefit from depth, rather than breadth, in high school science courses
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Education may improve hospital prescription rate of emergency contraception to teens
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CHICAGO – (March 5, 2009) – With origins dating back over 4,000 years, green tea has long been a popular beverage in Asian culture, and is increasingly gaining popularity in the United States. And while ancient Chinese and Japanese medicine believed green tea consumption could cure disease and heal wounds, recent scientific studies are beginning [...]
After cell types labeled with red and green dye markers are joined (bottom), the resulting 3-D structures are purified to eliminate unreacted cells (center). More cells can then be added to form even more complex structures (top). There is no theoretical limit to the number of different cell types that can be assembled; microtissues with [...]
Statement by Sandy Andelman, co-author of ‘Drought sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest’
posted in Headlines, SMHere is a statement from Dr. Sandy Andelman, co-author of the study titled “Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest” and Vice-President of the TEAM Network at Conservation International: “With most of the climate change debate focusing on energy security and food security, this study emphasizes the fundamental importance of ecosystem security – in short, how [...]
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Putting idle servers to sleep when they’re not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers’ plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. Data centers, central to the nation’s cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipment. Each time you make an ATM withdrawal, [...]
New Rochelle, NY, March 5, 2009—Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Therapies, a journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (www.liebertpub.com). This report is available free [...]
Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral discovered on a NOAA-funded mission in the deep waters of the PapahÄnaumokuÄkea Marine National Monument. Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a genus represents. A genus is a major category in the classification of organisms, ranking above [...]
J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have made huge strides in the past few years in the rapidly developing field of cloaking. Ranked the number five [...]